🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- Russian shadow tanker HYPERION has just entered the Carribbean waters, departing from the UMBA Offshore Terminal in Murmansk towards Jose Terminal, Venezuela.

The vessel is under US sanctions.

🇺🇸⚡️- Brown University has released a statement addressing rumors that one of its students may be the shooter. The university clarified that the individual being doxed has no relevance to the investigation, and that if they did, law enforcement would be actively investigating them and providing information to the public.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- WTI crude oil futures rose by 1.5% to around $56 per barrel after President Trump's decision to impose a "total and complete blockade" on oil tankers to and from Venezuela.

To all of those accusing us of perpetuating or support the doxxing of this student, we repeatedly stated that 1) the individual COULD NOT be verified as the shooter, and 2) to not stalk or dox said individual.

Our reporting covered legitimate, substantiated evidence and correlations that were worthy of coverage. Brown University, as we wanted them to do, dismissed the potential conclusions of those pieces of evidence by refuting all possibility that the said student was the shooter.

Not once have we accused the student of being the shooter, and we explicitly stated to NOT attack, dox, or stalk the student.

Based on the statement released by Brown University, we can conclude that the screenshot of a "Mustapha K." purchasing a 9mm muzzle brake on Wing Tactical was likely an absurd series of coincidences leading back to a Brown University student who is NOT responsible for the December 13th shooting at the University.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- U.S. Navy F/A-18s and EA-18 Growlers from the USS Gerald R. Ford are once again loitering off the coast of Venezuela.

🇷🇺⚡- "Russian crude is now fetching about $40/bbl across major ports, with Urals trading at its widest discount to Brent since May 2023.

US sanctions and falling global prices are set to slash Russia’s oil and gas revenues by nearly 50% in December," - Oil Price.

🇸🇾⚡- Initial reports of a major breakthrough in the Damascus-SDF integration talks.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Jared Kushner's investment firm has exited the Paramount Skydance bid to take over Warner Bros. - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- A US MQ-9 Reaper drone has returned to base in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, after its deployment to the Carribbean waters.

🇺🇸⚡️- Nuno Loureiro was a Portuguese Sephardic Jewish nuclear scientist who received multiple awards for his research and served as the Director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.

He was assassinated in the foyer of his apartment building in Brookline, Massachusetts, as he entered around 8:30 p.m, where he was found lying on his back by a neighbor and his wife. Local police swarmed the scene but found no trace of a suspect.

The investigation is ongoing, and the suspect remains at large more than 24 hours after the murder.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Why did Brown University have so few Security Cameras? There can be no excuse for that. In the modern age, it just doesn’t get worse!!!" - President Donald Trump via Truth Social

🇺🇸🇿🇦⚡️ - South African authorities raided a US refugee facility in Johannesburg.

During the raid, South African authorities temporarily detained U.S. staff who have been processing White Afrikaner refugees.

🇨🇴🇨🇱🇻🇪⚡- "[Venezuelan President] Maduro is a dictator because he concentrates power, however there is no evidence in Colombia that he is a drug trafficker. That's a US narrative.

[Chilean President-elect] Kast is the son of and a believer in Nazis. He belongs to the German generation that escaped Germany not to save themselves from Hitler, but to save themselves from Hitler's defeat, which is very, very different," - Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia.

🇦🇺⚡️ - Naveed Akram, the alleged surviving perpetrator of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, has been charged with 59 criminal offenses, including 15 counts of murder and one count of terrorism.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- "We are concerned about what the Pentagon is doing in the Caribbean and sinking civilian ships," - Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇳⚡- Chinese shadow tanker GALAXY 3 was set to depart from Jose Terminal, Venezuela. towards China today – but hasn't, and remains anchored off the coast of Venezuela, within Venezuelan waters.

The tanker is under US sanctions, and has previously transported illegal Iranian petrochemicals. The tanker is suspected to be loaded with at least 4 million barrels of Venezuela's highest-grade Merey 16 crude oil.

🇹🇭🇰🇭🇨🇳 - Thai military releases footage of Cambodian troops receiving military training at Chinese military bases in mainland China.

Chinese instructors lead the training sessions.

The Nigerian military is reportedly reconsidering its plans to procure additional NORINCO VT-4 main battle tanks from China following the type’s poor combat performance.

According to reports, the VT-4’s composite armor failed to meet expectations, with at least one tank destroyed after sustaining only a few hits from conventional RPGs fired by Boko Haram fighters. Nigerian-operated VT-4s have also reportedly spent more time undergoing repairs than in the field due to frequent component failures.

Nigerian defense officials have further expressed frustration over delays by NORINCO in delivering spare parts and replacement components. Nigeria initially received six VT-4 units in 2020, with plans to procure an additional 35-40 tanks that are now reportedly under review.